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Re: vmware interfaces on linux box
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Thu Dec 27 17:06:22 2007
Message-Id: <200712272155.lBRLtAae015306@speaker-for-the-dead.mit.edu>
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
cc: testers <testers@mit.edu>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 26 Dec 2007 11:37:17 EST."
<200712261637.lBQGbHNo004268@equal-rites.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:55:09 -0500
> The bad news is that I did not find an easy way to clean up the
> interfaces on alpha and beta machines. The manual procedure is easy
> enough. Two options:
>
> Option 1 is, before updating to 9.4.46:
>
> rpm -e VMwarePlayer
>
> Option 2 is, after updating to 9.4.46:
>
> rpm -e VMwarePlayer
> cd /afs/dev.mit.edu/system/rhlinux/rhel-4-updates/vmware.com
> rpm -Uvh VMwarePlayer-2.0.2-59824.i386.rpm
> # Reboot if you want VMware Player configured
Option 1 fails on private machines, because they assume you
intentionally removed VMwarePlayer and don't re-add it. Completing
option 2 solves that problem though.
Jonathon
